In Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural Nörth Daköta, Chuck Klosterman tries to capture in analogy the differences between Eric Clapton and Eddie Van Halen and succeeds:
"Listening to Clapton is like getting a sensual massage from a woman you've loved for the past ten years; listening to Van Halen is like having the best sex of your life with three foxy nursing students you met at the Tastee Freez."*
While I trust that I won't need to employ such modifiers such as "foxy" into rhetoric battle, I hope that I will be able to fashion analogies like his.
*This analogy would, of course, explain why I would choose Blind Faith, Cream, or Derek and the Dominoes over Van Halen. It also explains why my husband prefers the Van Halen of the David Lee Roth years.
2 comments:
I love the word "foxy". Really dates someone.
I too aspire to these types of analogies but when I do it is inevitably in front of someone upon whom the humor is lost. Around witty people I fail to entertain...
Reading Tara's insightful blog is like gulping down an ice cold glass of milk after gorging down a rich ghirardelli chocolate brownie. Refreshing, yet so intoxicatingly sweet.
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